[FOSS4G-Oceania] appoint OSGeo Oceania board

[Edoardo Neerhut]

In case it wasn't clear, I'd also like to put my hand up for the inaugural
board.

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 14:20, Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com> wrote:

> I think you'd be a huge value to the committee Andrew, so glad to see you
> throwing your hat in the ring.
>
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 23:02, Andrew Harvey <andrew at alantgeo.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to join the inaugural board.
>>
>> Once things are up and running, I'm keen to put forward a motion to form
>> an OpenStreetMap committee under OSGeo Oceania tasked with supporting the
>> OpenStreetMap project within the region.
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, at 3:53 PM, Edoardo Neerhut wrote:
>>
>> Thanks John. And great to see Alex and Adam putting their hands up
>> already.
>> Seems reasonable to me for people to express intent for the inaugural
>> board now, with official nominations for positions occurring later. I agree
>> with the concern of missing potential candidates.
>>
>> I'm also incredibly excited by what we can achieve as an entity with some
>> structure and clarity. Keen on helping in some capacity so might discuss at
>> GeobeersMEL tonight.
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 13:06, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds good.
>>
>> I’d be happy to join the board as a regular member; and/or nominate as
>> chair or co-chair. I don’t have a great election pitch - I am also on the
>> ‘board’ (steering committee) of another organisation undergoing the same
>> process right now (earth observation Australia), which might be helpful
>> experience - and it’s super exciting to be helping embody the culture of
>> this community in a thing, and want to help get the foundations sorted.
>> Having said that, my ego isn’t attached to any of it, so if there’s a
>> better candidate then all is fine and I’m less busy :D
>>
>> Cheers
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 12:32, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't see any problem at all with people expressing their interests
>> now. But the board will be filling the roles, and that can't happen until
>> the board actually comes into existence. I suspect there's not enough time
>> to fill roles before Christmas, without rushing and potentially missing
>> folks who are disengaging for the holidays?
>>
>> I suggest we can state our interests now, if we like, and the board's
>> first order of business in the new year should be taking nominations and
>> filling the roles.
>>
>>
>>
>> For the record, I'm keen to join the board. I'm super excited about the
>> future of this community, and the role this group has to play in it.
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